A farce, or slapstick humor, does well universally.
John Ratzenberger

After all, at end of the day, when you're breathing your last, it's not your producer, director, or cast mates by your bedside; it's your children. Keep that in mind.
John Ratzenberger

Before 1972, no actors got residuals. They just got paid. No residuals.
John Ratzenberger

But from what I can see all around me today, that America is fading fast, if it's not already gone.
John Ratzenberger

Diabetes affects my family. One of my kids is affected by it.
John Ratzenberger

Find people who share your values, and you'll conquer the world together.
John Ratzenberger

From what I can see, too many kids don't learn pride in their country anymore.
John Ratzenberger

Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.
John Ratzenberger

I always played a soldier, sailor, or policemen.
John Ratzenberger

I come from Bridgeport, Connecticut and have friends I grew up with there.
John Ratzenberger

I have been raising money for the past 14 years for diabetes research.
John Ratzenberger

I started improvising the Cliff character, based on someone I grew up with.
John Ratzenberger

I'd never been to acting school, so I never thought I'd get this far.
John Ratzenberger

I'm concerned about the insidious influence of the media's bad messages that undermine the lessons parents try to instill in their sons and daughters.
John Ratzenberger

I've turned down projects based on raunchiness before.
John Ratzenberger

In fact, my son learned his first swear word from E.T. at age five. The way I look at it, E.T. stole a bit of my son's childhood.
John Ratzenberger

In L.A., though, people get off busses calling themselves actors, so many are really not professionals.
John Ratzenberger

It appalls me that the people who decide what Americans will be watching on the tube have never been to the United States. Not the real United States.
John Ratzenberger

On my visits back home, if they saw that I was getting a big head, they'd let me know right away.
John Ratzenberger

So many actors have sheer guts, will, and determination; they just need some preparation.
John Ratzenberger